D-day

D-day In the early hours of June 6, 1944, American, British, and Canadian troops landed on the coast of Normandy to begin Operation Overlord. There were five drop zones who’s code names were Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. Americans troops invaded Utah and Omaha Beach. US troops quickly secured Utah Beach while at Omaha Beach things did not go so well. US troops suffered heavy casualties in just a few hours but by nightfall they had managed to clear the bluffs covering the beach. British and Canadian troops were to invade Gold, Juno, and Sword Beach and were met with much less resistance. The preparation for D-Day took a long time. Gathering and transporting tanks on shores and the movement of thousands of men and their weapons proved to be quite difficult. The plan called for almost 6,500 ships and landing crafts, which would land nearly 200,000 vehicles and 600,000 tons of supplies in the first three weeks of the operation. The invasion would also involve more than 13,000 fighters, bombers, and transport planes. D-Day was previously scheduled for May 1, but was postponed to June 5 to make more landing crafts d, day, beach, troops, omaha, men, landing, june, utah, soldiers, first, commander, allied, ships, secured, operation, off, hours, coast, began, allies, about, yard, weapons, vehicles, transports, tanks, sword, overlord, one, normandy, landed, land, juno, invasion, inland